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RETAIN THE CURRENT SMOKEFREE LAW.

The New Zealand Speech-language Therapists' Association has joined the Health Coalition Aotearoa and 104 allies in health, education, social services organisations and unions to say the Government’s p…

Posted 6 days ago by Siobhan Molloy - executive director Less than a minute to read

Listening to unheard children

Teachers in the UK now estimate that 1.9 million children are behind in talking and understanding words. This is the highest number ever recorded! Read Speech and Language UK's new report - Listening…

Posted 3 months ago by Siobhan Molloy - executive director Less than a minute to read

Towards Equity for Māori: A guide for SLTs working in Aotearoa

Towards Equity for Māori: A guide for SLTs working in Aotearoa While created for SLTs working in Health, this document was gifted to the Association for distribution and sharing with members and to m…

Posted 3 months ago by Siobhan Molloy - executive director Less than a minute to read

Looking for a speech-language therapist? Good luck with that.

Speech-language therapists are the next health workforce ‘cab off the rank’ to be struck by growing staff shortages, a problem compounded by the likely closure of Massey University’s Bachelor of Speec…

Posted 5 months ago by Siobhan Molloy - executive director Less than a minute to read

The benefits of the Māori SLT wānanga 2023

Hosted at Kuirau Marae in Rotorua on 3 - 5 March 2023, 34 SLTs and students participated representing all three universities, and SLTs working for MoE, special schools, kindergarten associations, universities, NGOs, community initiatives and private practices, NZSTA board members and people in leadership positions.

Posted 6 months ago by Hana Tuwhare and Siobhan Molloy - executive director Less than a minute to read

SLTs on the straight to residency pathway

As of Monday, 29 May 2023, 32 more health sector roles have been added to the Green List, and all Green List health roles are now on the Straight to Residence pathway. People are now eligible to apply under the new Green List criteria. Further information about these changes can be found on the Immigration New Zealand website.

Posted 6 months ago by Siobhan Molloy - executive director Less than a minute to read

Aspirations for speech-language therapy services provided to Māori following stroke

Megan Eustace, a PhD student at the University of Canterbury, describes her aspirations for speech-language therapy services provided to Māori following stroke.

Megan was awarded the Marion Saunders Trust Award for her project presented at the NZSTA Symposium.

Read more from Megan in the Summer/Raumati edition of Communication Matters.

Posted 9 months ago by Siobhan Molloy - executive director Less than a minute to read

OPEN LETTER: Continue work on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

On 14 December, NZSTA joined 61 organisations and individuals in an open letter calling on Government to be bold, act on its values and continue work towards recognising Indigenous human rights in Aot…

Posted 12 months ago by Siobhan Molloy - executive director Less than a minute to read

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